Tip #14- How to write big and bold in your post

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@ernie_in_berkeley accidentally discovered this today:

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(odd boldface there; I don’t know why)

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I was just about to ask you how did you do that… :star_struck:

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@ernie_in_berkeley @Chemicalkinetics

You can make big bold face by typing the sign “-”, like this

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Test

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But I was just copy/pasting from WebMD. The passage isn’t in boldface there.

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type something and then next line, you put a hyphen, just like the screen capture I made here.

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Ah, gotcha. I might have included a string of hyphens to separate the WebMD text from my comment.

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Yup, actually your line didn’t appear.

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the better to shout with?

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test

test

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But I thought bold is “**”

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It is, but with the hyphen, the font is even bigger in size. Hope this is not an excuse to yell.

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This is BIG